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Imagine the Boston Red Soxs' wonder when they realized that their star pitcher, Babe Ruth, was the most fearsome hitter in the game. Such was our surprise when we set out to test download managerstools that help people grab files off the Internet more quicklyand discovered that the only product we could recommend was one that was never intended to compete in this category.

Download managers integrate with your browser and typically let you schedule downloadsand resume them automatically if a connection is lost and restored. Their main selling point, however, is the ability to accelerate a download. They do this by opening multiple connections to one or more servers simultaneously, grabbing different parts of the file through each connection, and reassembling the file on the client.

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About the Author

Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever sincemuch to his own amazementhe graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find See Full Bio

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